Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 15,000 acres in Broward County, Florida, in 1996. It was discovered on March 24, 1996. MTBS dates its ignition to April 6, 1996. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 15,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,792 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.327, -80.714.
The record
- Reported final size
- 15,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,792 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 1996
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 6, 1996
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Florida
- County
- Broward County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2631208069919960406
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_46619
- Note on the perimeter
- Wetland; Acres within the fire perimeter are less than the reported acres.
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Florida in 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 9,416 | Jan 24, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,500 | Jun 18, 1996 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,790 | May 20, 1996 | |
| East Marsh Fire | 3,542 | Jan 25, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,416 | Apr 2, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,343 | Feb 27, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,173 | Jan 24, 1996 | |
| Major 1 Fire | 3,149 | May 14, 1996 | Human |
| Card Sound Fire | 3,040 | Mar 4, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,835 | Dec 9, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,708 | Oct 27, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,590 | Jul 23, 1996 |
Nearby
Sources
Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.